Please join IRMA, AVAC and Ian McGowan, co-principal investigator of the Microbicide Trials Network and Principal Investigator of CHARM (the Combination HIV Antiretroviral Rectal Microbicide Program) for a thoroughly CHARMing teleconference update on what is happening with this innovative program.

Funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in 2009, CHARM is an $11 million, five year, multicenter grant intended to advance candidate rectal microbicides from discovery into early clinical development. Rather than simply testing existing vaginal formulations of microbicides, CHARM seeks to develop rectal-specific products from the beginning.

Find out the latest on CHARM, including the development of a purely rectal formulation of tenofovir gel, and other scientific activities underway and planned.

CHARMed, for sure!

Click here to determine the time of the call in your location. Slides will be made available on the IRMA website here , for download in advance of the teleconference, and via the ReadyTalk web interface on the day of the call. Audio for the call will be available via phone only.

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